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• ​Lockheed upgrades Airborne Multi-INT Lab

  13-03-2017 23:31 via flightglobal.com
  Lockheed Martin has enhanced Airborne Multi-INT Lab (AML) to speed up the sensor system s ability to turn sensor data into intelligence.
  
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• Scifi Eye: Romancing the robots

  13-03-2017 17:45
  
  Scifi writer Jon Wallace explores our continued obsession with all things robotic
  There’s nothing quite like a robot to help spin a good story. Automatons offer scifi scribblers an opportunity to create our own Frankenstein tales: of cursed human genius and overleaping ambition, and of the creatures themselves, holding up a mirror to their creator’s imperfections.
  Some of our most enduring 20th century science fiction characters are Frankensteins: Blade Runner’s Eldon Tyre
  
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• Search begins for next wave of car stars

  13-03-2017 17:14
  
  Applications for the 2017 Autocar Courland Next Generation Award are now open, with the organisers seeking out the latest crop of automotive talent.
  The competition, open to 17-25 year olds, will challenge entrants to submit an innovative automotive idea in one of five categories: mobility, connectivity, sustainability, customer experience, or marketing & communication. This year’s winner will receive £9,000 in prize money, as well as a six-month work experience programme with co
  
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• News story: Veterans UK Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017

  13-03-2017 16:38
  
  At Veterans UK (part of Defence Business Services) we are always trying to improve the services we deliver to our customers. One of the best ways to understand how we can make improvements is to ask the people who use our services how we can do better.If you would like to tell us about your experiences, please complete our Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017For more information on the services we deliver and how you can contact us, please see Veterans UK.
  
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• Swiss engineers develop edible robot

  13-03-2017 14:57
  
  Researchers in Switzerland have developed an edible pneumatic actuator that they claim could pave the way for a new generation of metabolisable robots able to crawl around the inside of body, and deliver drugs directly to where they’re needed.
  The team, from the Intelligent Systems Lab at EPFL, have demonstrated a 90mm long device made from a gelatin-glycerol composite, which, according to a paper on the research, exhibits many of the same performance characteristics of the more traditiona
  
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• Rising to the transport challenge of mass-urbanisation

  13-03-2017 14:01
  
  Jason Ford, news editor
  The number of people living in cities isn’t getting any smaller. In 2014, 54 per cent of the world’s population resided in urban areas, a figure that is expected to grow to 66 per cent by 2050.
  According to the United Nations, continued urbanisation coupled with global population growth could add 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with almost 90 per cent of that figure concentrated in Asia and Africa.
  People living in cities will need transport i
  
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• Read The Engineer’s March issue now

  13-03-2017 13:15
  
  From the UK’s role in the development of Small Modular Reactors, to the robotic systems that are transforming retail, and job opportunities in the motorsport sector there’s something for everyone in our latest issue.
  
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• US Army fires off 3D printed RAMBO grenade launcher

  13-03-2017 12:41
  
  The US Army has used additive manufacturing to create a fully functioning grenade launcher, along with 3D printed training rounds that have been successfully fired.Known as RAMBO (Rapid Additively Manufactured Ballistics Ordnance), the weapon was developed by the Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Centre (ARDEC). RAMBO is based on the 40mm M203A1 grenade launcher, which contains 50 components. All of these, with the exception of springs and fasteners, were produced
  
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• Wood group swallows AMEC Foster Wheeler

  13-03-2017 12:05
  
  AMEC Foster Wheeler agrees to £2.2bn effective takeover by Wood Group in energy services contractor consolidation
  Wood and AMEC FW provide engineering services to the process industries, mining and energy Image: AMEC FWAberdeen-based Wood Group is to merge with AMEC Foster Wheeler in a deal which effectively sees AMEC FW taken over by the larger contractor. The deal creates a £5bn company that will provide services to the oil and gas, other energy, chemicals, and mining industries.
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• Grocery 4.0: Ocado reshapes retail with robotics and automation

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Online grocer Ocado is establishing a reputation as a major technology player. Jon Excell reports
  If prompted to name a UK company at the cutting edge of robotics and automation, few of us would cite one of the country’s best-known grocery retailers.
  But, as The Engineer learned on a recent visit to one of its key facilities, online supermarket Ocado is establishing a reputation as a major technology player: harnessing and developing machine-learning systems, Internet of Things concep
  
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• Grocery 4.0: Ocado reshapes grocery retail with robotics and automation

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Online grocer Ocado is establishing a reputation as a major technology player. Jon Excell reports
  If prompted to name a UK company at the cutting edge of robotics and automation, few of us would cite one of the country’s best-known grocery retailers.
  But, as The Engineer learned on a recent visit to one of its key facilities, online supermarket Ocado is establishing a reputation as a major technology player: harnessing and developing machine-learning systems, Internet of Things concep
  
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• ANALYSIS: Malaysia's air force operates on shoestring budget

  13-03-2017 10:30 via flightglobal.com
  The Royal Malaysian Air Force faces an uncertain future for its capability development plans, given the government s budgetary limitations, constrained by slow economic growth and falling oil revenues.
  
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• Small nuclear reactor researchers eye up alternatives to traditional technology

  13-03-2017 10:00
  
  Several research groups and private companies are looking at alternative small modular reactors for our nuclear future. Stuart Nathan reports 
  While pressurised water reactors cooled by light water (LPWRs) are likely to be the first small modular reactors (SMRs) deployed commercially, they are by no means the only type of SMR under development. Several research groups and private companies are also looking at alternative nuclear technologies for their potential in smaller reactors.
  The
  
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• Rapid reaction: small factory-built nuclear reactors could be delivered by lorry

  13-03-2017 10:00
  
  UK engineers are in the vanguard of efforts to develop compact nuclear reactors, otherwise known as small modular reactors. Stuart Nathan reports
  Even before the first kilogram of concrete has been poured, Hinkley Point C may be among the last of a kind. Large nuclear reactors, producing electricity on a gigawatt scale, have dominated the sector for years, but their size and complexity are now combining to put their cost beyond the means of most countries.
  A new nuclear paradigm, which seems to
  
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• North Wales site has potential for UK’s first small modular reactor

  13-03-2017 10:00
  
  Trawsfynydd was identified as a potential small modular reactor site by Parliament’s Welsh Affairs Committee last year. Stuart Nathan reports
  There is currently no site in the UK approved for building a power station based on SMR technology. However, there is no shortage of potential sites and Trawsfynydd in North Wales is mentioned regularly.
  Situated in the Snowdonia National Park, Trawsfynydd is the site of the only nuclear power station in the UK not to be built on the coast. The twin-
  
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• ​China’s J-20 set to receive indigenous engine

  13-03-2017 06:45 via flightglobal.com
  China is nearing the use of an indigenous powerplant for the Chengdu J-20 fighter aircraft, although mass production of key engine technologies is a challenge.
  
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• ​Boeing renews Korean F-15K sustainment pact

  13-03-2017 03:19 via flightglobal.com
  Boeing has won a five year contract to sustain Seoul s fleet of F-15K fighter aircraft.
  
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